Boura and Bouras

Boura and Bouras
Boura (also BURA, BIRA,Greek Βουρα,),was an ancient city of Achaea,Greece, one of the 12 cities of the Achaean League.
It is said to have derived its name from a daughter of Ion and Helike.
The city was situated on a height 40 stadia from the sea, and southeast of Helike. Its name occurs in a line of Aeschylus, preserved by Strabo. It was swallowed up by the earthquake which dastroyed Helike in 373 BC, and all its inhabitants perished except those who were absent at the time. On their retur they rebuilt the city, which was visited by Pausanias, who mentions its temples dedicated to Demeter, Aphrodite, Eileithyia and Isis.
Strabo relates that there was a fountain at Boura called SYBARIS, from which the river and celebrated city in MAGNA GRAECIA, Italy derived its name. On the revival of the Achaean League in 280 BC, Boura was governed by a tyrant, whom the inhabitants slew in 275 BC, and then joined the confederacy. A little to the east of Boura was the river Buraicus (ΒΟΥΡΑΙΚΟΣ), and on the banks of the river, between Boura and the sea, was an oracular cavern of HERACLES surnamed Buraicus (Herod.i 145, Pol. ii 41, Strab. pp 386, 387, and 59, Diod.xv.48, Paus.vii.25 ).

Ovid says that the ruins of Boura (which he calls BIRA), like those of Helike, were still to be seen at the botton of the sea, and Pliny makes the same assertion (Ov.Met.xv.293, Plin.ii.94). Hense it was been supposed that the ancient BOURA stood upon the coast, and after its destruction was rebuilt inland, but neither Pausanias nor Strabo states that the ancient city was in the coast, and their words render it improbable.

Basile Bouras, president of the BOURA SOCIETY ,,BOURA IN THE ETERNITY,,